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Crochet bouquets of nearly 50 whimsical, wonderful flowers, in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colours! Done in upscale yarns like ribbon, chenille, and silk, this contemporary garden will get intermediate-level crocheters grasping their hooks. Some of the flora looks realistic; others are beautifully fanciful, pure products of the imagination. A simple, well-photographed basics section explains how to create them all - specialty techniques include felting, stacking the flowers, stiffening the petals and linking the flowers together. Grow daffodils, dahlias, ferns, primroses, sunflowers and violets - or even a fantastic blossom with layers of scalloped petals radiating out in increasing size from a crystal button centre. For added inspiration, a series of showcase projects incorporates the blossoms, including hats, backpacks, pillows and cards.
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Hello Crocheters!
I'm thrilled to be back on here, where my fist book, The Polymer Clay Sourcebook, appeared in 1998.
The UK was much on my mind as I wrote Crochet Bouquet. We lived in Sheffield for seven years, where I marveled at the brilliant gardens and flowers, so different from those in the hot and drier climate in my home state of Texas.
The flowers in Crochet Bouquet range from flat to 3-dimensional, realistic to fantastic, in as many colours as possible. They are meant to be used as embellishment. The projects included in the book give ideas for using flowers on backpacks, hats, greeting cards, and more.
If you haven't joined Ravelry already, please do! Then you can join me and others in the "Crochet Bouquet Alongs" group as we work through some of the designs in the book together.
Special greetings to my friends at the Hallamshire Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers, and to the many wonderful fiber enthusiasts I met during our time in the UK.
Suzann Thompson
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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a very attractive book, visually well presented with good photographs and a great selection of flowers and leaves.
I do have a few issues with it, which has brought my rating to 4 rather than 5 stars.
Do not buy it for projects - other than making the flowers. There are a few projects, or ideas on how to use the flowers, and they are all dated, unimaginative and do not show off the flowers to best advantage.
It took me a while to realise I should be checking whether the instructions were in American or English crochet, and longer to establish that it was American. The author includes a half-treble in the instructions, which is an English stitch, and I cannot find reference to it being an American stitch, so that confused me. Eventually on page 17 (not page 1 as it says in the index) I found some information, but I am still a little doubtful.
It would have been helpful to put all the 'basic' information together at the front of the book - there is a US/UK translation chart at the very end of the book. Also, while I accept that it is not a basic crochet instruction book, a brief chart showing actual samples of individual stitches would have been helpful.
For American crocheters this is a most attractive and useful book. For those used to English crochet it might be more trouble than it is worth to translate the instructions.
I do have a few issues with it, which has brought my rating to 4 rather than 5 stars.
Do not buy it for projects - other than making the flowers. There are a few projects, or ideas on how to use the flowers, and they are all dated, unimaginative and do not show off the flowers to best advantage.
It took me a while to realise I should be checking whether the instructions were in American or English crochet, and longer to establish that it was American. The author includes a half-treble in the instructions, which is an English stitch, and I cannot find reference to it being an American stitch, so that confused me. Eventually on page 17 (not page 1 as it says in the index) I found some information, but I am still a little doubtful.
It would have been helpful to put all the 'basic' information together at the front of the book - there is a US/UK translation chart at the very end of the book. Also, while I accept that it is not a basic crochet instruction book, a brief chart showing actual samples of individual stitches would have been helpful.
For American crocheters this is a most attractive and useful book. For those used to English crochet it might be more trouble than it is worth to translate the instructions.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for my great aunt who taught me to crochet. She loved the book upon seeing it at xmas. It is really beautiful. I decided that I would like to try one of the designs out before I gave it to her and I couldn't get my head round the instructions. I know how to read instructions but I realised that the book is written in the American version and not the British which I am used to. So although the book is worth 5 stars, there wasn't a mention of this critical difference in crochet as it can be very confusing. Perhaps if I had been crocheting for decades I'd find it easy to switch but it's only been a couple of years for me!
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Beautiful book the flowers are exsquisite. Yet very easy I have many crochet flower books but this is the best one I found Crochet Bouquet: Easy Designs for Dozens of Flowers and there are loads of patterns and so much inspiration!. Also there is a website address inside of the authors own blog. where readers of her book can crochet alongs and get help about any of the patterns in the book! The leaves are fantastic too
and also there are ideas of how to use the flowers for appliques etc beautiful yet simple to make.I shall buy the next book from Suzann Thompson too.
and also there are ideas of how to use the flowers for appliques etc beautiful yet simple to make.I shall buy the next book from Suzann Thompson too.
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Crochet Bouquet
Lovely 'photo's and patterns but found pictures of the actual patterns a bit confusing, however, must admit my crochet is a bit rusty after a few years break.
Published 1 month ago by E. Wilkinson
Disappointing
I chose this book because the flowers on the front page looked great. I found out when I had purchased the book that nearly all the flowers (well ALL the ones I wanted to make )... Read more
Published 8 months ago by cyberjeannie
Learners Beware
As a English beginner to crochet I was disappointed to discover that all the terminology I have learned so far gets confusing when using this book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Eam
flower power!
Another lovely book, lovely pictures, nice close ups so you can see the details, looking forward to making my bouquets. Worth every penny.
Published 13 months ago by mexicallyrose
Great book!
This is a great book if you are wanting to start from basics, good explanations and flowers suitable for beginner and intermediate crocheter. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Craftybag
flower power
this is a brilliant book. full of wonderful, different flowers and leaves
to crochet and brighten up all manner of things! Read more
to crochet and brighten up all manner of things! Read more
Published 16 months ago by L
I like this...
A lovely book. I already have "100 flowers to knit and crochet" by Lesley Stanfield so I wondered if it was worth buying this as well. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Clare
Fantastic book!!!!!!
Absolutely love the book. It's very rare that you can find a flower crochet book with decent instructions. I managed to make flowers I never even dreamed about. Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2010 by Mrs. Natalya Lancaster
crochet flowers
This is an excellent book with lots of lovely colour pictures and clear instruction to make beautiful flowers.
Published on 30 Oct 2009 by C. Moran
crochet bouquet also nicky epstien knitted flowers
Beautiful books, thank you at Amazon for very good service
iwas very impressed and will certainly use Amazon again
D.M.M
iwas very impressed and will certainly use Amazon again
D.M.M
Published on 3 Jun 2009 by D. M. Mahon
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